The application of eye-tracking technology in the study of autism
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For many decades, eye-tracking has been used to investigate gaze behaviour in the normal population. Recent studies have extended its use to individuals with disorders on the autism spectrum. Such studies typically focus on the processing of socially salient stimuli. In this review, we discuss the potential for this technique to reveal the strategies adopted by individuals with high-functioning autism when processing social information. Studies suggest that eye-tracking techniques have the potential to offer insight into the downstream difficulties in everyday social interaction which such individuals experience.
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Research with dynamic social scenes has repeatedly found atypical viewing patterns in ASD.
“In contrast to studies using static faces, studies using dynamic social scenes have consistently identified atypical viewing patterns in individuals with ASD 9.”
From Parsing Heterogeneity in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Visual Scanning of Dynamic Social Scenes in School-Aged Children (2012) · cites this paper as [9]
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- Authors
- Boraston, Z., & Blakemore, S.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Venue
- The Journal of Physiology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2007-06-06
- Volume
- 581
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 893-898
- ISSN
- 0022-3751 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-7793
- PMC
- PMC2170849
- OpenAlex
- W1576453162
- Cited by
- 287
- References
- 46
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- FWCI
- 0.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- The Journal of Physiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
- Keywords
- eye tracking, autism spectrum disorder, high-functioning autism, gaze behavior, social information processing, social interaction difficulties
- MeSH terms
- Autistic Disorder, Eye Movements, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Interpersonal Relations, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nonverbal Communication, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Phenotype, Severity of Illness Index, Social Behavior, Visual Perception, Reproducibility of Results
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